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Implementation of the e-learning Training Program, developed in coordination
with the Spanish Company "EENI" within the framework of a Cooperation agreement
signed between the General Secretariat and EENI. The agreement was signed by the
General Secretary of Aladi, Ambassador Juan Francisco Rojas Penso, and EENIs
President, Pedro Nonell Torres.
The ALADI is the largest Latin-American Group of integration. It has twelve
member countries:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and
Venezuela, totalizing 20 million sq km and more than 430 million people.
The 1980 Montevideo Treaty (TM80) is the global legal framework that constitutes
and rules the ALADI and was signed on August 13th 1980. It establishes the
following general principles: pluralism, convergence, flexibility, differential
treatment and multiplicity.
The ALADI promotes the creation of an area of economic preferences in the
region, aiming at a Latin-American Common market, through three mechanisms:
- Regional tariff preference granted to products originating in the member
countries, based on the tariffs in vigor for third countries
- Regional scope agreement, among member countries
- Partial scope agreements, between two or more countries of the area
Either regional or partial scope agreements (Articles 6 to 9) may cover tariff
relief and trade promotion; economic complementation; agricultural trade;
financial, fiscal, customs and health cooperation;
environment preservation; scientific and technological
cooperation, tourism promotion; technical standards and many other fields
(Articles 10 to 14).
As the TM80 is a "frame treaty", by subscribing it, the Governments of the
member countries authorize its Representatives to legislate through agreements
on the most important economical subjects for each country.
A preference system, which consists of market opening lists, special cooperation
programs (business rounds, pre-investment, financing, technological support) and
countervailing measures on behalf of the landlocked countries, has been granted
to the countries qualified as relatively less developed (Bolivia, Ecuador and
Paraguay), to favour their fully participation in the process of integration.
Any Latin-American country can join the 1980 Montevideo Treaty. The Republic of Cuba was the last country to accede, becoming full member country on August 26th
1999. Besides, the ALADI is also open to the all Latin American countries
through agreements with other countries and integration areas of the continent
(Article 25), as well as to other developing countries or their respective
integration areas outside Latin America (Article 27).
As the institutional and normative "umbrella" of regional integration that
shelters these agreements as well as the sub-regional ones (CAN, MERCOSUR, G-3, etc.) it is the aim of the Association to support and favour every effort in
order to create a common economic area.
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